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Pacific Garden Mission (Chicago, Ill.)

 Organization

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Collection 047 Papers of Melvin E. Trotter

 Collection
Identifier: CN 047
Scope and Contents Sermons, personal memorabilia, audio tape of Trotter's preaching, negatives, photographs, minutes, reports, newspaper clippings, and correspondence related to Trotter's ministry as an evangelist and in rescue mission work. Collection combines Trotter's papers and the City Rescue Mission's records, including invitations to speak, responses to invitations from Trotter to speak at the mission, an abstract of a deed, requests for funds, testimonials to the good work of the mission, reports from...
Dates: Created: 1899-1972

Collection 139 Oral History Interview with Frances Rader Longino

 Collection
Identifier: CN 139
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Frances Rader Longino (1909-1996) in which she recounts memories of evangelists Billy Sunday, Mel Trotter, Homer Rodeheaver, and her uncle, Paul Rader. Other topics include: city mission work and the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, Pacific Garden Mission, Winona Lake, and Cedar Lake Conference Grounds. Also included are reminiscences of Rader's reaction to Aimee Semple Mc Pherson, the formation of Scripture Press, Billy Graham's early preaching and crusades, and some...
Dates: Created: 1980

Collection 140 Oral History Interview with Everett Mitchell

 Collection
Identifier: CN 140
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Everett Mitchell (1898-1990) who as a teenager sang invitation songs at Billy Sunday evangelistic campaigns. Other topics discussed include: Mitchell's background, music and radio career, musical training, Billy and Helen Sunday, evangelistic work in Chicago, Gipsy Smith, Homer Rodeheaver, other evangelists, career as a war correspondent during the Korean War, religious use of radio, evangelistic rallies and crusade music. The time period covered by the intervew...
Dates: Created: 1989-1980

Collection 196 Oral History Interview with Edna Louise Asher Case

 Collection
Identifier: CN 196
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Edna Louise Asher Case (1905-1999), in which she discusses her aunt, Virginia Asher, who was a co-worker of Billy Sunday; she was also involved in many other evangelistic efforts. Other topics include: Case's student days at Wheaton College, and her involvement in city mission work; impressions of Mel Trotter, Billy Sunday, Helen Sunday. The time frame covered by the interview is 1905 to 1929.Edna Case was interviewed by  Robert Shuster  on November...
Dates: Created: 1905-1929

Collection 237 Records of the Slavic Gospel Association

 Collection
Identifier: CN 237
Description: Correspondence, minutes, prayer letters, audio tapes, films, and other materials documenting the work of the Slavic Gospel Association among Slavic peoples, primarily Russians. Records deal with the early career of Peter Deyneka Sr.; work of individual missionaries; long range planning for the mission; media ministry (radio, film, both before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union video, literature); and evangelism in Europe, North America and South America. Collection contains...
Dates: Created: 1922-2002

Collection 328 Papers of Eric and Lydia Maillefer

 Collection
Identifier: CN 328
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews, speech manuscripts and prayer letters relating to the careers and ministries of Eric and Lydia Maillefer as missionaries and Christian workers with the Evangelical Free Church in Zaire, Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar (AEAM), and the Africa Evangelical Office (AEO). Lydia worked as a teacher and school administrator; Eric worked first as a teacher, then on loan as a conference coordinator to the Africa Evangelical Office, and later as administrative secretary...
Dates: Created: 1971-1991

Collection 399 Oral History Interview with Paul E. Johnson

 Collection
Identifier: CN 399
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Paul E. Johnson (1909-1997) in which he talks about his family background; conversion; lay witness as a musician involved in the work of Pacific Garden Mission and various prison ministries; Chicago in the 1930's; the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle; the Christian Businessmen's Committee; Paul Rader, Jack Wyrtzen, Roger Malsbary; and the early days of Youth for Christ in Indianapolis. Other topics discussed include the Great Depression in Chicago, and Johnson's...
Dates: Created: 1988

Collection 451 Papers of Bernard L. J. Litchman

 Collection
Identifier: CN 451
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of diaries, negatives, photographs, and slides created by Bernard "Jack" Litchman about his work with Africa Inland Mission in the former Belgian Congo (now Zaire), mostly among the Balendu people, in and around the Linga mission station, as well as involvement in setting up Sunday Schools, churches, itinerant preaching, and other mission activities as well as working as a health officer for the Belgian government.

Dates: Created: 1917-1971

Collection 511 Oral History Interviews with E.J. Cummins

 Collection
Identifier: CN 511
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Dr. Erwin Jephthah Cummins, Jr. (1918-1997), SIM International medical missionary to Nigeria from 1952 to 1983. Topics discussed include Cummins's Christian background and education; early medical training and practice in Chicago, involvement in Christian Medical and Dental Society; transition to the mission field in Nigeria; medical work building and directing leprosaria in the Nigerian interior; indigenous church administration; Evangelical Church of West...
Dates: Created: 1995

Donn G. Ziebell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN-637
Brief Description Oral history interviews, correspondence, reports, e-mails, memos, budgets, strategic plans, audio and video recordings, and photographs relating to activities of Ziebell, a retired American businessman, as a senior executive at Slavic Gospel Association and other ministries. The material in the collection documents the work of SGA in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and other countries; the reorganization of SGA in the late 1980s and early 1990s; Christianity in Russia during the same time...
Dates: 1981-2008

Herbert J. Taylor Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 020
Brief Description Correspondence, photographs, reports, publications, posters, minutes of meetings, and other documentation of Herbert J. Taylor's long involvement in the leadership of such organizations as Child Evangelism, Youth for Christ, Christian Service Brigade, Pioneer Girls, Young Life, National Association of Evangelicals, Fuller Seminary, Christian Workers Foundation, and Inter-Varsity as well as his role in the planning and development of Billy Graham's Chicago crusades and of Key '73. Other...
Dates: Created: Ca. 1916-1979

Religious and evangelistic radio program audio tapes.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 1993-074
Dates: 1961-1974

Additional filters:

Type
Collection 11
Unprocessed Material 1
 
Subject
Evangelistic work. 9
Radio in religion. 7
City missions. 6
Conversion. 6
Evangelistic work -- United States. 6
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Evangelistic work -- Chicago. 5
Fund raising. 5
Chicago (Ill.) 4
Christian life. 4
Missions. 4
Radio in religion -- United States. 4
Women 4
Women -- Religious life. 4
Catholic Church. 3
Church and state. 3
Cities and towns -- United States. 3
Cities and towns. 3
City missions -- United States. 3
Fundamentalism. 3
Mass media in religion. 3
Sunday schools. 3
Unshackled (Radio program) 3
Baptism. 2
Belief and doubt. 2
Bible. 2
Businessmen -- Religious life -- United States. 2
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
Chicago (Ill.) -- Religion. 2
Children of missionaries. 2
Children. 2
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
Christianity and culture. 2
Church and social problems. 2
Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
City missions -- Chicago. 2
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 2
Evangelicalism. 2
Evangelistic work -- Australia. 2
Evangelistic work -- Canada. 2
Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
Evangelistic work -- Congresses 2
Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 2
Evangelistic work -- Russia. 2
Holy Spirit. 2
Indigenous church administration 2
Liberalism (Religion) 2
Management -- Religious aspects -- Christianity 2
Mass media in religion -- United States. 2
Missionaries -- Training of. 2
Missionaries. 2
Missions -- Educational work. 2
Missions -- Europe, Eastern. 2
Missions -- Finance. 2
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
Missions -- Soviet Union. 2
Old Fashioned Revival Hour (Radio program) 2
Pentecostalism. 2
Preaching. 2
Religious institutions. 2
Rural missions. 2
Sermons, American. 2
Sex role. 2
Soviet Union -- History, 1985-1991 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Social life and customs. 2
Women in church work. 2
Youth 2
Youth -- United States 2
Youth -- United States -- Societies and clubs. 2
Adventures in Judaism (Radio program) 1
African Americans. 1
Alaska. 1
Aleuts. 1
Antisemitism 1
Apartheid. 1
Apostles' Creed. 1
Back to God Hour (Radio program) 1
Back to the Bible Broadcast (Radio program) 1
Bahai Faith. 1
Belgium. 1
Belgium. -- Administration. 1
Belgium. -- Colonies 1
Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
Belief and doubt -- Sermons. 1
Bible -- Publication and distribution -- Soviet Union. 1
Bible -- Publication and distribution. 1
Bible -- Sermons. 1
Bible Institute Hour (Radio program) 1
Bible stories, Russian 1
Billy Graham Moscow visit (1982: Moscow, Russia) 1
Boys -- United States 1
Boys. 1
Boys. -- United States -- Societies and clubs. 1
Bulgaria. 1
Businessmen -- Religious life. 1
Businessmen. 1
Catholic Church -- Africa. 1
Catholic Church -- Kenya. 1
Catholic Church -- United States. 1
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